Friday, November 18, 2005

U.N. Reform Notions

Scope of oil-for-food fraud 'overwhelming' - Yahoo! News: "A U.N. summit in September 'was a disappointment,' says Lee Feinstein, a former Clinton State Department official who served on the Gingrich-Mitchell panel. 'The issue is whether out of the glare of a summit you can get the major donors to push through real reforms like appointing a chief operating officer for the U.N., creating an independent auditing authority and giving hiring and firing power to the secretary-general.'"